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		<title>The hunting of the snark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”
&#8211; Lewis Carroll

As the New York Times reports today, a federal appeals court yesterday found that accusations against a Uighur detainee held for more than six years at Guantanamo were based on bare and unverifiable claims.
&#8220;With some derision,&#8221; the three-judge panel said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dodd on FISA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) gave a magnificent speech on the Senate floor in opposition to the FISA bill before that body. Among its other reprehensible provisions, the bill would give retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that fed information to the National Security Administration, without judicial warrant and without notifying the individuals.
But Dodd went much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money for justice</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/139</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another example of all the things going unfunded while we are stuck fighting a misguided war in Iraq&#8230;
Cambodia genocide tribunal running out of money - Los Angeles Times
Plagued by long delays and corruption allegations, the special court prosecuting Cambodia&#8217;s former Khmer Rouge leaders on genocide charges is running short of money months before its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From &#8220;Bodies&#8221; to Playboy?</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/136</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Premier Exhibitions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In another first, legislators in New York just voted to require anyone showing a plastination exhibit  to show where exactly the bodies came from. Senator Jim Alesi (R-Perinton) sponsored the bill, which mirrors similar efforts in California, Pennsylvania, Washington and Hawaii.
North Carolina may see similar legislation introduced next year.
Alesi told WROC-TV, “It’s human dignity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First to say no to torture</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/135</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>

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Today, North Carolina took one step closer to becoming the first state in the union to make torture and conspiracy to commit torture a crime. By a 4 to 3 vote, the Judiciary I Committee of the North Carolina House approved a bill meant to put a stop to the &#8220;extraordinary rendition&#8221; flights that begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A marvelous speech</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/127</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[J.K. Rowling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[J.K. Rowling&#8217;s commencement speech at Harvard is required listening&#8230; the speech is in three parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L445BmUEXH4

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqGotirF20w



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		<title>Bodies recall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not quite &#8212; but the network of people who have opposed the for-profit use of unclaimed and &#8220;un-donated&#8221; bodies in plastination exhibits scored several impressive victories recently.
After an extensive investigation of the origin of the bodies, the New York State Attorney General announced on May 29  that Premier had agreed to a settlement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting through art</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/124</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IRA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Sinn Fein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 1998 Good Friday agreement, which provided the blueprint for a peaceful resolution to a decades-old conflict, has meant an end to the daily killings that used to define life in Northern Ireland. But the fighting persists in different ways, most visibly through the outdoor murals maintained in many neighborhoods.
In Catholic neighborhoods, murals celebrate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Degrees of difference</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/117</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Northern Ireland this week, lookign at issues of truth, reconciliation and how (or if) to memorialize the past. As with any conflict, this one has its volcabulary (nationalist, UVF, the Troubles, etc.) and its touchstone events, like Bloody Sunday or the 1998 Good Friday agreement, which has led to a kind of tense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me + You</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/116</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Kony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A student led me to this very good video by Fall Out Boy on the plight of children harmed by war in northern Uganda. Filmed in Uganda, the video supports Invisible Children, a non-profit started by American film students and including a Ugandan staff.
Although there is currently a truce between the government and Lord&#8217;s Resistance [...]]]></description>
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